Starter quiz
- The purpose of a topic sentence is...
- to summarise the paragraph
- to explain the main idea of the paragraph ✓
- to analyse the methods used
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- Rank these topic sentences from least to most effective.
- 1⇔The poet uses free verse and enjambment in 'A Century Later'.
- 2⇔Dharker uses free verse and enjambment in 'A Century Later'.
- 3⇔Dharker explores resistance and non-conformity in 'A Century Later'.
- Considering the differences between one thing and another is being...
- comparative ✓
- correlative
- constructive
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- Information that helps the message of a literary text make sense is the...
- 'context' ✓
- Which of the following is an accurate summary of Shelley's 'England in 1819'?
- Shelley criticises powerful institutions for the oppression of ordinary people. ✓
- Shelley advocates for more influence to be given to powerful institutions.
- Shelley applauds the ordinary people for revolting against the institutions.
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- Which of the following is an accurate summary of Dharker's 'A Century Later'?
- Dharker explores the fight for gender equality in education. ✓
- Dharker explores the fight against institutional oppression.
- Dharker explores the violence of WW1 trench warfare.
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Exit quiz
- When was 'England in 1819' written?
- 1819 ✓
- 1914
- 2014
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- Temporal means relating to...
- time ✓
- space
- environment
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- 'Considered in relation or in proportion to something else' is the definition of...
- 'relative' ✓
- Which of the following is a comparative topic sentence?
- Both Shelley and Dharker explore the importance of temporality. ✓
- Shelley foregrounds the importance of the present.
- Dharker encourages the reader to see the cyclical nature of time.
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- In Dharker's 'A Century Later', the poem arguably emphasises the ______ nature of violence.
- 'cyclical' ✓
- Match the information/ideas about time with the poem.
- References past events⇔'A Century Later' ✓
- Past and present are different⇔'England in 1819' ✓
- Explores the importance of temporality⇔'A Century Later' and 'England in 1819' ✓
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Key learning points
- Shelley foregrounds the difference between the past and the present in ‘England in 1819’.
- Dharker suggests that the past impacts the present in ‘A century later’.
- Shelley may draw our attention to one moment in time to imply the cyclical nature of oppression can be broken.
- Arguably, Dharker refers to the past to imply that we are caught in a a recurring cycle of violence.
- both poems advocate for the importance of considering the temporal context of a poem in order to understand its meaning.
Common misconception
That philosophical ideas of time have no bearing on literature.
Considering the nature of time impacts the human experience and therefore has a bearing on literature since it explores what it means to be human.
Keywords
Temporality - represents the way the world is perceived with particular attention to how it relates to time
Relative - considered in relation or in proportion to something else
Cyclical - occurring in cycles; recurrent
Linear time - time that is perceived as moving from the past, through the present, to the future in a straight line
Temporal - relating to time
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